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    diaper

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Babies
    di·a·per /ˈdaɪəpə $ ˈdaɪpər/ noun [countable]  DHB American English a piece of soft cloth or soft paper that is put between a baby’s legs and fastened around its waist to hold liquid and solid waste 尿布，尿片 SYN British English nappy I changed her diaper. 我给她换了尿布。
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    diaper• A diaper design was then card-wired on to the shell using a template and a straight-edge.• Many roads are littered with fast food containers, diapers, wrecked and / or stolen cars, and animals.• We are a people who have decided to deny diapers to babies with bare bottoms.• She was wearing a disposable diaper.• We certainly can not afford to give away vouchers for medicine, for No. 2 pencils, for diapers.• Miss Vicki was twisted around pulling at her diaper.• The columns and arches are painted in diaper and other patterns in indian red, black and white.• What seductions, what family quarrels, what diaper changes?changed ... diaper• They change diapers and mix bottles for infants crying in the middle of the night when no one else is around.• When anyone tried to brush her hair, give her a bath, or change her diaper, it hurt.• When daughter Tiffany was born, Olson became adept at changing diapers with one hand.• He did all the fatherly duties, he changed diapers.• I played with him, I carried him around the garden, I changed his diapers and bathed him in the sink.• He bathed them, changed their diapers, and willingly helped, then and now, with every aspect of child care.    Origin diaper (1300-1400) Old French diapre “fine cloth”, from Medieval Greek diapras “pure white”
    di·a·per nounChineseSyllable
    piece a Corpus cloth of soft soft paper or


    diaper
    di‧a‧per /ˈdaɪəpə $ ˈdaɪpər/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1300-1400
     Language: Old French
     Origin: diapre 'fine cloth', from Medieval Greek diapras 'pure white'
    American English a piece of soft cloth or soft paper that is put between a baby’s legs and fastened around its waist to hold liquid and solid waste
       SYN  nappy British English:
        I changed her diaper.


    di·aperBrE /ˈdaɪəpə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdaɪpər/ 🔊 (NAmE) (BrE nappy) nouna piece of soft cloth or other thick material that is folded around a baby's bottom and between its legs to absorb and hold its body waste 尿布◆a diaper rash尿布疹